Way toward the end, at around the forty nine minute mark, Silver
drops a bombshell.

Towards the end of the election Dylan Byers at
Politico published a strange article — described by Gawker
as a "weird hit piece" — called "Nate
Silver: One-term celebrity?"

It seems like Silver didn't forget that. Here's him firing back
at Byers and the whole paper:

SILVER: What's remarkable for me is that you had some
journalist for Politico who tweeted out "All Nate's doing
is averaging polls and counting electoral votes? That's the
secret sauce?." Well, yeah, and the fact that you can't
comprehend that very basic thing, that says more about you than
it does about me, right?

SIMMONS: It was like passive aggressive coming after you but
they couldn't find a good way to do it.

SILVER: Politico is a "who won the day" kind of thing,
right? They're trying to cover it like it's sports but not in an
intelligent way at all. They want to create noise, basically.

Their whole thing is you have to have a lead story about some
gaffe that somebody made on the campaign trail. [...] In
politics, you can have a month where nothing of any import
whatsoever happens. But you still have to have Politico
produce a paper seven times a week and that's when they're trying
to start trouble.

Listen to the whole podcast here. It's a
great hour of discussion for anyone interested in sabermetrics or
the future of Silver in politics.